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Executed British drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh was investigated by British and Polish spy chiefs after a chilling text message sent following London's 7/7 bombings, it emerged today (Tues). Shaikh - at the time living in Poland - triggered the investigation in 2005 when electronic eavesdroppers intercepted a text from a phone registered to him saying: "Now everybody will understand who Muslims are and what jihad is." The message was sent from Shaikh's phone to two people in London, reports Polish TV news service TVN24. And Polish prosecutors today (Tuesday) confirmed the investigation into Shaikh, 53, who was executed by Chinese authorities this morning after he was caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin into the country. Poland's equivalent of MI5 investigated Shaikh, who lived in Lublin where he was married with two Polish children. But District Prosecutor spokeswoman Beata Jankowska today (Tuesday) said they finally dropped the five month long investigation by the Internal Security Agency. "In December 2005, proceedings were discontinued in the absence of sufficient evidence," she said. But less than a year later, Shaikh was in trouble with the law again, it emerged today (Tuesday) when he was investigated for assaulting his Polish wife. She complained to police of him using threatening behaviour to both her and their two children but withdrew her statement in 2006 before the case could come to court, it was reported. Polish authorities suspected she had been intimidated but Shaikh left for China soon after the case was shelved. This morning (Tuesday) - despite protests from the British Government - Shaikh was executed in China for drug smuggling.
